My Old Essay Tutorial

[jason]

I've put my essay writing HowTo online again, after a number of years hiding on my harddrive: http://jasonnolan.net/essaytutorial.html
It is primarily for my CLD121 students, but I thought other folks might get a kick out of it.

Comments

[karimsultan.livejournal.com]

Very interesting, indeed I did get a kick out of it. Perhaps I will try to apply some of it in the course of writing my next paper.

K

(although if it actually decreases my essay writing abilities, then you might be in quite a bit of trouble, good sir!)

K

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

Too late for the likes of you, no doubt.Though I found, personally, that reducing my use of prepositional phrases (or left-branched sentences, I can't remember what one calls them) at the beginning of my sentences from 8% to 4% caused an increase in my marks by almost a letter grade in grad school. So finding whatever works for you is the idea. What courses are you taking up there at Great North U?

[karimsultan.livejournal.com]

Its never too late! Unless, perhaps, you think otherwise...

Right now I'm back into the swing of things at York with a couple 1000-level polisci courses (which is my major) and a wonderful sociology course that's masquerading as a natural science. Called 'science and pseudoscience,' it discusses the unusual transition of knowledge claims from findings, sightings, or research into either accepted or 'rejected' knowledge. I'm getting a big kick out of it because we're being painstakingly thorough investigating this process (which is the best kind of thorough), and I'm learning quite a bit about how human society disseminates knowlege from the real world. However, I digress!

K